John Stuart Mill

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Standard Name: Mill, John Stuart
Used Form: J. S. Mill
JSM was a leader in the intellectual life of the nineteenth century and of liberal or progressive thought. He wrote numerous philosophical works, publishing essays, newspaper articles, reviews, letters, and pamphlets over approximately sixty years. Best-known to feminists is Of the Subjection of Women, 1869. Harriet Taylor , whom he married after her husband's death, was a major influence on him.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Helen Taylor
HT collaborated with John Stuart Mill on several projects. She assisted him in the completion of The Subjection of Women (1869) and edited his posthumous Autobiography(1873).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rose Tremain
This book opens by looking back just over a century, when John Stuart Mill presented petitions to parliament on behalf of women's suffrage in 1866 and 1867. It relates the story of the suffragist movement...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ray Strachey
The book starts with an account of Mary Wollstonecraft 's work, and proceeds decade by decade, citing Florence Nightingale , Josephine Butler , John Stuart Mill , Sophia Jex-Blake , and many others. Its heroine...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helen Taylor
The essay considers the suffrage petition presented by Mill in 1866 to the House of Commons . While examining the petition, HT gives particular attention to the English constitution and laws that allow women to...
Travel Harriet Taylor
HT and John Stuart Mill travelled to France together, intending to benefit their health.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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Travel Harriet Taylor
HT travelled to Paris in order to take the decision whether she should separate permanently from her husband and enter into a more intimate relationship with John Stuart Mill .
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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Travel Harriet Taylor
She and Mill regularly travelled together. Both in poor health in 1838, for example, they travelled to Italy and back through Germany. They took care, however, never to reveal to their friends before leaving...
Travel Harriet Taylor
John Stuart Mill and his younger brothers met HT and her children in Paris, whence they travelled to Geneva and Lausanne before Mill and Taylor continued alone to Genoa.
Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Wealth and Poverty Helen Taylor
Following Mill 's death, HT inherited the house in Avignon which he had bought in order to be close to her mother 's grave.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
She arranged for the presentation in 1905 to Somerville College, Oxford

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